Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans. Even after such a long time.

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Becoming Darkness

The sky above hovered in blackened evils and tainted with too much shed blood. Freakish creatures gave hollow cries with monstrously born lungs and throats. Those things that now ruled the world and sky had no hearts.

A little girl, no older than seven going by her height, sat perched on the windowsill of her bedroom, gazing out at the stars, one would think she couldn't see those bright gleaming orbs of purity, a long time ago she would have said she could not either. But circumstances change. She could now see the light, as withered as it was in this world, anything with remote purity shone like a supernova's flare in this desolate world…a world that had once made others seem so dark and crude.

The little girl had been having dreams recently. It made this world seem far darker than what she now knew as her current reality. Her dreams held images, such beautiful images, of a universe without Trigon. In her dreams Trigon's evil was routed…the hero Robin remained a hero…or at least a hero of humanity. He was also her hero. He saved her, from herself. She feared Trigon, but his words, his belief in her, the way he considered her such a being of hope…she was no longer a demon in the dark…but an angel wielding the darkness for the people she believed in.

Yet…there was sadness in her dream. The hero of humanity loved only the Tamerainian princess…and she the half-demon child come angel, had to languish alone in the depths of a solitary romantic life with mere books…there was no flesh; only hers, there was no second heartbeat close to her ears; only one beat, there was no passion for another; only unrequited love, there was no life; only Raven staring at the backs of the Great Robin and the Princess Starfire heading out for another romantic night under the sunset.

But the world was safe…the world survived Trigon.

Yet she perished in the dark depths of her mind…longing for the one thing she could never have.

The Boy Wonder: Robin.

In this bleak world, were humans lived as stone ornaments or slaves to demon lords she felt a selfish spark of happiness. This world allowed her to keep Robin as hers. Starfire had feared him so much in her last encounter…

Raven feared him too, but that didn't stop the burning desires her raging soul, even trapped in this childish body, could not douse. Raven longed to touch him, but she was bound to this room, as the final battle raged on outside. A last ditch attempt by the heroes of Earth to defend humanity. The True Heroes of Humanity…

Raven looked down at the bloodshed and battle cries; she would try one last time…

She only hoped Starfire could forgive her.

Beastboy shifted into a mouse running covertly up towards Trigon, clutching an old book desperately. He had practiced the words…he knew them with every fibre of his being. This was the last chance they had.

Cyborg was fully maxed out, leading the few straggling heroes and villains that refused to be ruled by demons and beasts that belonged to otherworldly places. "Come on! This is our last chance! Jinx! Blood! Both of you hold back!"

"We know!" Jinx snapped back, her patience worn down to the last few stands. Her hair had gone grey in a few places, but she was not the only one to have suffered at their vanity. Cyborg had to have a few extra cybernetic parts installed after his last encounter with Trigon's right hand; Robin.

Slade fought against Trigon, but there were losing badly.

Robin had emerged into the battle by now. Blackfire charging at him in full rage, her starbolts pulsing viciously with purple energy; "This is for my sister!" tears ran down her cheeks continuously in a flurry of emotion only brought about by the loss of something precious.

Beastboy leapt out from his hiding place just as the last princess of Tamerain was ripping to shreds by whips of electricity. He spoke words of an ancient language. A great purple dragon tore through a sudden whirlwind of pages, and slammed itself directly into Trigon, larger by the demonic god only due to its great wingspan.

Beastboy then lunged at Robin, in the form of an ankylosaurus to protect himself against the electrical whips that could sprout from his former friend's fingertips. "This is for Starfire!"

Robin's memory seemed to blur into his twisted thoughts for a second…a young woman screaming to get away from him, all power drained by her object of love turned despair standing before her, slicing her open with sharp inhumanly claw-like fingernails. "Please! I c-can't…can't…take this…anymore…make…it…stop…please make…it…s-stop…"

His clawed fingernails had torn through flesh and bone without discretion and left her to die drowning in her own blood and the misery he had made of her. He had smirked with something human hidden behind his bloodthirsty eyes, "Too late, Starfire."

The doors to the Titan Tower opened with a distinct hiss. From it emerged a young girl no older than seven, dressed in a white version of Raven's outfit. She searched the battlefield and her eyes landed on Robin, who was currently crushing Beastboy's ribcage with his foot. Running forwards she tripped, being helped to stand by one of the fire-demons. They were the new 'humanity', and complete un-reflection of humans in every way save their darkness…these were the monstrosities that humanity created.

Constructs of greed, lust, envy, rage, gluttony, languor, pride, and emotion; into a form of existence…

As the little girl reached her destination, the murderer looked up, just in time to see the princess of darkness envelope him as best her small quivering arms could. Those arms grew, and the weight shifted as the child became the truth…a young teenaged girl overcome by destiny and love.

Starfire…forgive me…

Lips of longing and rampant desire, crashed against hot but cold lips of flesh mounted on bone; with sweet delicious blood running through those tender pieces of flesh…providing warmth where his soul could not, giving feeling to a brain lost in madness, flowing emotions not of sin back into his body from her touch…she was healing him.

Forgive…us…

His tongue requested entry, she gave it. And like his sanity-deprived personality, once the consent was given he took firm control, with a touch of sadism. Her mouth was bruised because of it.

What you have concealed…

Raven pulled away, coughing from the bruises he had given, using her energy to heal herself. She had known it wouldn't be easy…but if her other self could live through heartache, she could survive possessive dominance.

And it was now that she understood, after all that fighting to stop this from happening…she couldn't dare to look at Beastboy to see the hatred on his face…nor could she bare Cyborg's glare almost as inhumane as her love was…mutilated as he is…

But she did look up to the sky once again to see the stars only she could see…as the brightest shadow in this world's eternal night. She knew she could not see her…but her heart said the Tamerain was smiling down at her.

Raven remembered Starfire never held any grudge…and knew that even in death the princess was still pure and innocent…it felt wrong to both ignore and accept the forgiveness…

The last Heroes of Humanity had died ten years ago…a long time ago I was one of them. A long time ago they were my friends.

But friends don't betray and exile each other.

Even the worst of friends don't kill each other.

So…now I have no friends. I won't allow myself to have them.

Dying on the inside…

I don't remember why I killed them…but I remember how. I remember their screams the most. I remember hers most.

She begged for mercy. I held none. I wish I had mercy back then…I wish I had it now.

The first woman I loved, I destroyed her. Then I killed her. I left her to wallow in agony.

I wish I felt guilt. I really do.

Only Raven feels the guilt now. And slowly it's tearing her apart.

I try to comfort her…really I do. But how much can a heartless murderer comfort? I don't feel human anymore, and I'm too tainted to touch my angel. So she's withering away. Sometimes she mentions another her, another world, another Robin. But I never hear her talk of another us. Perhaps that's why I'm doing this for her. Give her this pain to bring her back to me. I know it breaks her…I know I should let the angel fly away…but if she goes, I know my last trace of being something, anything will fade away to Master's claws.

What I have concealed…

I wish we could be in that dream world. But I know I'm too tainted to survive there. Angel would be fine…she'd be happy. But I would destroy her dream.

This is what happens when demonic gods unseal monsters living inside humans.

I was once a Hero of the People.

Now I'm not even sure if I'm Robin anymore…

What you have concealed…

What I have concealed…

What we have concealed…

Will be revealed.

I love you Robin.

Is slowly killing us inside.

Authoress's Note: I have emerged from fanfiction hibernation. But I might slink back into it again (college assisgnments start back up again soon). I will give no more excuses and tell the truth. I was lazy, I didn't have a plot, and I detest writing without a guideline to follow, also I watched The End Episodes. It totally screwed with the opinion of the first chapter. Ah well I wrote it now.

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